There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.

If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow will have to come back countless times as a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

To throw a blot on a man's reputation by praising him.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.

Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.

just between you, me, and the fence post.